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Creative Sentencing, Restorative Justice And Environmental Law: Responding To The Terra Nova Fpso Oil Spill, Cecily Y. Strickland, Scott Miller

Dalhousie Law Journal

On 20 November 2004 the Terra Nova FPSO inadvertently discharged 165n3 of oily water into the surrounding waters of the Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area. Petro-Canada was charged with having caused a spill and thereby committing an offence pursuant to the Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act. This was the first charge of its type arising from offshore oil and gas operations on the east coast of Canada. The authors provide a factual overview of the incident and identify some resultant legal issues, including the application of creative sentencing and the use of probation orders.

Genomics & Ethnicity: Using A Tool In The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Justice Toolkit, David L. Mcmurray Jr.

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Copyright In An Era Of Information Overload: Toward The Privileging Of Categorizers, Frank Pasquale

Vanderbilt Law Review

What to read? or watch? or listen to? These are hard questions, not because of any scarcity of expression, but rather because of its abundance. Over 100,000 books are published in the United States each year, thousands of movies and CDs are released, and the amount of textual, musical, and visual works on the internet continues to rise exponentially. Whose work can we trust? And who knows what of it will rank among the best that has been thought and said-or even provide a few moments levity?

Admittedly, a bulging bookshelf or surfeit of films prompts an existential crisis in …

The Equator Principles: The Private Financial Sector's Attempt At Environmental Responsibility, Andrew Hardenbrook

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Equator Principles are a set of voluntary environmental guidelines created to manage environmental degradation that results from large-scale developmental projects in the Third World. On June 4, 2003, ten private financial institutions adopted these guidelines, and by the end of 2006 this number had grown to forty. Moreover, in June 2006 the Principles were revised, raising the level of scrutiny for companies that adhere to these guidelines.

At first blush, the adoption of the Equator Principles by private financial institutions appears to be a substantial step toward implementing environmental standards in developing countries that lack adequate regulations. However, three …

The Bright Line Of Rapanos: Analyzing The Plurality's Two-Part Test, Taylor Romigh

Fordham Law Review

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Arc Ecology V. United States Dep't Of The Air Force - Anchors Away: The Potential For Non-Extraterritorial Statutory Application To Contaminate The Environment And International Relations, Jerre S. Riggs

Villanova Environmental Law Journal

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The Animal Question: The Key To Coming To Terms With Nature, Jim Mason

Animal Law Review

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